Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God”(Deut4vs24).
What has God given to you that has now replaced the place of God in your life? Is it a child ,job, promotion ,open door ,bussiness to mention a few?
No matter how high God lifts His children in life ,He expects them to always acknowledge Him as the first priority because God is a jealous and He doesn’t wants anything that will take His place in the life of His children at all.
And that is why often times when we cry to Him for a particular breakthrough, miracle or request He delayed them .Why ? Because He knows some children forget quickly where He picked them from .They forget so fast how close and how faithful they were in the service of God when they were looking for that particular miracle and which is not supposed to be.
See our God is a merciful and faithful father yet He is a jealous God ,He hates when we replace anything whatsoever He had given us with His own place in our heart.
When we need a job we will go to church on weekly basis ,we will serve the Lord with all our heart .When we are in need of promotion ,we will not miss any prayer meetings ,we will fast and wait on the Lord.
We will study His word ,worship and praise His holy name telling God how big He is to help us come out of every horrible pit we found ourselves.
What now happens when He finally gives us our desired miracles and we change in a twinkle of an eye like a chameleon.
We allow the euphoria of the moment makes us forget so soon where God picked us from.
We don’t have time for the things of God again like we used to before God brought higher here .We are not faithful to Him again ,even our quiet times begin to suffer from kwashiokor and marasmus 🙄
We start resting so soon like the hymn that says ‘Christian seek not yet repose,’
hear thy guardian angel say;
thou art in the midst of foes;
‘watch and pray.’
Dear soldiers in the vine yard ,It’s not time to rest yet.
God begins to beckon my dear son, my daughter, Let us fellowship. Let reason together again .
But our spiritual ears are now very far to even pick His beckons because our antenna are so dull .Hmmm danger ! danger!
As God is a merciful God He is also a consuming fire(Deut 4 vs23-24).Never let God out of your daily affairs ,it is very dangerous and the end is always a catastrophe.
Some people cried to God; God bless me ,I will serve you. God please make me wealthy ,I will build churches for you.
But what is happening now?
We are not even Available to serve in His house again.
The money is plenty now and the contracts are rolling in everyday .We forgot God so soon ,We forgot our lifter .We replaced His place with our blessings.
Some of us make so much excuses as not to serve God the way we used to do before He answered our prayers.
May God have mercy on us all.
Has God done anything bad by answering you? Has He done anything bad by granting your heart desires? No! I guess.
Whatever He gave us should humble us and make us serve Him more and better and never replace them with His own place in our heart.
When we place other things above God and let God out of our daily routines, danger is around the corner. Destruction is very close, why ?Because Our God is a jealous God.
As a music minister you now sneak in and sneak out when you are invited to minister in a church, Because you are the guest minister and of course to you
you just came to sing that’s your own business and all other things in the program they invited you to are not important to you. Your own is just to sneak in and sneak out when the programme or even prayer is going on because you were just invited to come and sing and often times not that you have another ministration elsewhere.
We carry the gift more on our head than even the giver. How many times in a week do you even fellowship in songs with your father the giver of that gift?
You carry the ministry and the anointing more than the giver of the anointing.
Hmmm this is dangerous beloved .
Our God is a jealous God. Never replace whatever God has made you or given you with the place of God. Always find time for God, never allow that job to take His place in your life.
The children He had given you should not be reason you don’t have time for God again, remember He is a jealous God ,Yes He is. He is also a merciful and loving father also when we trace our steps back to Him.
Let us all go back to our maker. Let us go back to our first love. Our first commitment
,Our first fellowship as in the day when we first gave our lives to Him.
God is a jealous God, do not replace His own place with anything as He lifts you and me let us honour Him
More with everything He had made us .
The reason He delayed some answers to prayers is because He knows how you will be behaving to Him tomorrow.
In conclusion, what Has the Lord given you ?
That has now taken the place of God in your life ?
Is it wealth, your husband, your wife, your children, car, job, promotion ,international connections etc don’t let all these replace your walk with your Maker.
Never let anything take His place in your life
and if in anyway they are already taking His place in your life .Let us restrategize out priorities m and retrace our steps back to the acient land mark .
And I know He will surely help us in Jesus name.
In everything God made you, always proof to Him that He is number one .
God bless you
Odunola Akintola(omo ARUGBO OJO)
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